hn

An easy-to-use CLI and Python library for HNSearch's API.

Installation

There are two ways of installing the library:

pip install hn

Alternatively, run the following from the command line:

python setup.py install

CLI

Usage patterns for working with the hn CLI.

Search

Basic search terms and querying. Allows for specifying number of results with n flag (maximum is 100), and starting ordinal position of results with the s flag.

hn term
hn multiple terms -n 100
hn multiple terms -n 100 -s 100

Date

The d flag allows for searchs filtered to a specific date (in YYYY-MM-DD or MM-DD-YY format).

hn -d 03-16-12
hn -d 2012-03-16

hn github -d 2012-03-16
hn techcrunch -d 03-16-12

Hits

Return the number of results encountered with the --hits flag.

hn pg --hits
hn zachwill --hits

Sorting

By default, sorting will be descending (though both asc and desc can be used).

hn github -S points
hn github -S username desc
hn -d 03-16-12 -S username asc -n 100

Time

In addition to filtering by date creation, you can specify the hours to search within on the specific day.

hn -d 03-16-12 -t 0 12
hn -d 03-16-12 -t 13 23

hn -d 03-16-12 -t 12am 12pm
hn -d 03-16-12 -t 1pm 11pm

Type

The T flag allows filtering by specific types of items (comment or submission).

hn zachwill -T comment
hn zachwill -T submission -S points -n 100

Username

The u or U flags allows filtering by a specific username.

hn -U zachwill
hn ycombinator -U pg

hn -U pg -T submission -S points
hn -U pg -T comment -S points asc